The Tamil Nadu Government will support the petition to be filed by the bleaching and dyeing units of Tirupur and Karur, according to the Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi.Speaking to newspersons

The West Bengal government is protesting a move by the Union environment ministry to change the east Calcutta wetland's status to that of a lake. In a report available to the state environment

Germany-based chemical major BASF has reduced emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide by 95% at its Ludwigshafen site, according to the firm's 1997 corporate environmental report. The report

Thousands of rescue workers and soldiers on Thursday scoured villages in southern Italy in a desperate search for some 70 people still missing after mudslides turned into rivers of death, killing at

At least eight units near the gutted customs godown at the Dasnagar industrial estate in Howrah are yet to reopen: employees have refused to come for work till the administration clears the chemical

Switzerland will need to build two new waste incineration plants immediately, the Swiss environment ministry has said, to ensure sufficient capacity when landfilling of combustible wastes becomes

Costa Rica's El Arenal volcano has been throwing molten lava and sent columns of ash and smoke into the skies, prompting the government to declare an emergency and evacuate at least 400 people from

The state railroad company SNCF suspended shipments of nuclear waste to a reprocessing plant after a report that trains had been contaminated by

The Allahabad High Court ordered closure of all industrial units on the banks of the river Ganga in the State which had not installed effluent treatment plants. A Division Bench, consisting of Mr.

Emphasizing the fundamental importance of biological diversity to human well-being and survival, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) called for